Cyprus
The Republic of Cyprus is a republic, located on the island of the same name in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Independence from the UK was approved in 1960 with constitutional guarantees by the Greek Cypriot majority to the Turkish Cypriot minority. The overall guarantor powers were Turkey, Greece and Great Britain. Throughout the 1960's, the Greek EOKA terorists followed a policy of ethnicly cleansing the Turkish Cypriot population, in their ultimate aim to make the island Greek and unite with Greece (ENOSIS).
From the CIA World Factbook 2000. Not Wikified.